The recently launched Italian naval mission off the Libyan coast will not solve the "migrant crisis" but will instead jeopardize migrants, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Given the current...

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has intervened in the case of a suspect put in pre-trial detention who wanted to attend his father’s funeral. The prosecutor’s office dismissed his motion and the man was...

A Council of Europe fact-finding mission to Hungary has found serious issues with the country's new higher education law and called on the government to rework it. The delegation determined that the law was passed...

One municipality in Lithuania accidentally leaked residents' personal codes to the public, violating their right to privacy and exposing them to fraud.

Police officers continue to attack and beat people in Roma neighborhoods and villages, says Svetoslav Raykov, the mayor of the town of Kamenar. He said that police officers arrived in his village in the early...

A High Court judge on Thursday dismissed a challenge to Northern Ireland's prohibition of same-sex marriage. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK and Ireland that prohibits same-sex marriage. The presiding...

The number of applications for international protection in Poland decreased considerably in 2016, according to official statistics from the Border Guard. But there is disagreement as to why.

New research sheds light on the situation of foreigners in Rome and its surrounding region, revealing Italy's capital to be a place of great pluralism and multiculturalism.

The European Union should use force to defend its external borders, Bulgaria's defense minister has told Die Welt. Krasimir Karakachanov said he wanted to more than triple the number of troops stationed on his...

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